Memorial Drive is a collaborative series by BURNAWAY and ArtsCriticATL about the history of the arts in Atlanta. Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Park sits at the intersection of Formwalt Street and Abernathy Boulevard, near Turner Field. Artwork by Emma Amos that is titled We Will Not Forget (1996) graces that corner lot. Unfortunately, I think [...]
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11/23/11 Memorial Drive: The NAC and the 1970s Black Arts Movement
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Tags: 1%, Abernathy Boulevard, activist, Ad Hoc Committee for the Arts, African American artists, African American music, Alice Lovelace, Alphonso Sanders, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Art for People’s Sake, art history, Art on Auburn program, Atlanta art history, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta history, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta University Art Annuals, Atlanta University Center, Auburn Avenue, Bill Nunn, black art, black art history, Black Arts Movement, Bumbershoot Festival, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, center for puppetry arts, CETA, Civic Center, Clark Atlanta University, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Democratic Conference of Mayors, Ebon Dooley, Emma Amos, Formwalt Street, Forrest Avenue School Project, Fulton County Arts Council, funding, Georgia Allen, Hale Woodruff, history, Jim Alexander, Joe Jennings, Jomandi Productions, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, mantra, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Max Roach, Maya Angelou, Maynard Jackson, Mayor’s Day for the Arts, Mechanicsville, Memorial Arts Center, Memorial Drive, Metropolitan Opera, Michael D. Harris, Michael Lomax, Michael Simanga, Mississippi Valley State University, Morehouse College, NAC, National Black Arts Festival, National Conference of Artists, National Dance Company of Senegal, Neighborhood Arts Center, New York, Nexus, Odd Fellows Building, Office of Cultural Affairs, Ojeda Penn, one-percent tourism/hotel tax, Peabo Bryson, percent for the arts, Peter James Bryant School, Ralph David Abernathy, Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Park, Romare Bearden, Romare Bearden Gallery, Samuel L jackson, Seattle, Shirley Franklin, Southern, Southern art history, Spike Lee, Spring Street Elementary School, the South, Tina Dunkley, Tom Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Turner Field, Tyler Perry, We Will Not Forget, woodruff arts center
Tags: 1%, Abernathy Boulevard, activist, Ad Hoc Committee for the Arts, African American artists, African American music, Alice Lovelace, Alphonso Sanders, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Art for People’s Sake, art history, Art on Auburn program, Atlanta art history, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta history, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta University Art Annuals, Atlanta University Center, Auburn Avenue, Bill Nunn, black art, black art history, Black Arts Movement, Bumbershoot Festival, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, center for puppetry arts, CETA, Civic Center, Clark Atlanta University, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Democratic Conference of Mayors, Ebon Dooley, Emma Amos, Formwalt Street, Forrest Avenue School Project, Fulton County Arts Council, funding, Georgia Allen, Hale Woodruff, history, Jim Alexander, Joe Jennings, Jomandi Productions, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, mantra, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Max Roach, Maya Angelou, Maynard Jackson, Mayor’s Day for the Arts, Mechanicsville, Memorial Arts Center, Memorial Drive, Metropolitan Opera, Michael D. Harris, Michael Lomax, Michael Simanga, Mississippi Valley State University, Morehouse College, NAC, National Black Arts Festival, National Conference of Artists, National Dance Company of Senegal, Neighborhood Arts Center, New York, Nexus, Odd Fellows Building, Office of Cultural Affairs, Ojeda Penn, one-percent tourism/hotel tax, Peabo Bryson, percent for the arts, Peter James Bryant School, Ralph David Abernathy, Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Park, Romare Bearden, Romare Bearden Gallery, Samuel L jackson, Seattle, Shirley Franklin, Southern, Southern art history, Spike Lee, Spring Street Elementary School, the South, Tina Dunkley, Tom Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Turner Field, Tyler Perry, We Will Not Forget, woodruff arts center
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07/14/11 National Black Arts Festival Fosters Reflection on Atlanta’s Future
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Tags: African American, ATL, Atlanta, black art, black artists, cosmo whyte, documentary, Fahamu Pecou, film, Georgia State University, Goodie Mob, High Museum of Art, Kara Walker, Kombo Chapfika, Larry Walker, Masud Olufani, Memory as Medicine, National Black Arts Festival, NBAF, Outkast, Radcliffe Bailey, Stephen Hayes, Terra Coles, The Inheritance, Thornton Dial, Trenton Doyle Hancock
Tags: African American, ATL, Atlanta, black art, black artists, cosmo whyte, documentary, Fahamu Pecou, film, Georgia State University, Goodie Mob, High Museum of Art, Kara Walker, Kombo Chapfika, Larry Walker, Masud Olufani, Memory as Medicine, National Black Arts Festival, NBAF, Outkast, Radcliffe Bailey, Stephen Hayes, Terra Coles, The Inheritance, Thornton Dial, Trenton Doyle Hancock
When I moved to Atlanta from North Carolina in 2006, I was more excited about getting to know a city that gave birth to OutKast and Goodie Mob than studying for my MFA in photography, the reason I came here in the first place. At first I only paid half-ass attention to the professors because [...]
































karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve